Cortona
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Cortona is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic centre of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo.
View of Cortona
Tabula Cortonensis
Etruscan city wall
Bedroom mosaic floor, Roman Villa of Ossaia, Augustan era
Battle of Lake Trasimene
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The Battle of Lake Trasimene was fought when a Carthaginian force under Hannibal ambushed a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius on 21 June 217 BC, during the Second Punic War. The battle took plac
Cortona
…central Etruria, led directly from Chiusi to Arezzo, bypassing Cortona. During the Second Punic War Hannibal besieged and attacked Cortona. The famous battle of Trasimeno took place not far away and the hamlet of Ossaia, not far from the battlefield, takes its name because the remains of the dead were amassed there…
Ducarius Beheads Flaminius at the Battle of Lake Trasimene (1882) by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre
The bowl of a Montefortino-type helmet, which was used by Roman infantry between c. 300 BC and c. AD 100. The cheek guards are missing.
Modern interpretation of a slinger from the Balearic Islands (famous for the skill of their slingers)